Durare works with buyers financing their first acquisition and owners running the companies they've built — lender-grade deal packages, honest buy-side screens, and a right hand who has actually run the play. Operator-tested, not theory.
Tightly scoped, fast to start, and priced for a clear yes. Two are built for acquirers; one is built for the owner who needs a second brain in the business.
Walk into your lender's office with the package they wish every borrower brought — built by someone who has sat on your side of the table with SBA-preferred lenders.
Before you spend months and legal fees on a deal, spend a week finding out whether it deserves them. A candid go / no-go from an operator's read, not a banker's.
The role that grew a PE-backed platform 5x — now available in fractional form. A standing advisory cadence for the founder who has no one to think out loud with.
A 90-day pricing and profitability engagement. We find the margin hiding in your price list, your mix, and your worst customers — the same playbook that produced roughly $20M of incremental EBITDA in a single year.
Sell-side preparation for owners twelve to thirty-six months from a transaction. Clean financials, a defensible growth story, and the operational proof points buyers pay premiums for.
Every recommendation comes from having done the work inside an operating company — pricing actions, acquisition integrations, lender processes — not from a framework slide.
We use AI to compress the work that used to require a four-person team. We never use it to replace judgment.
Engagements include aligned economics wherever the work allows it. More EBITDA, a closed deal, a higher exit value — we make money when our clients do.
Durare was founded on a simple observation: most owner-operated businesses are worth meaningfully less than they could be, and the people best positioned to help them are too expensive, too disinterested, or both. The middle market is overserved by transaction advisors and underserved by anyone who actually understands what it is to run the business.
The work draws on a decade of operating and advisory experience. As Right Hand to the CEO at Crown Bakeries — a private-equity-backed platform that grew approximately five times in revenue and ten times in EBITDA over five years — the work spanned a pricing initiative that added roughly $20M of incremental EBITDA in a single year, multiple acquisition integrations, multi-state facility expansion, and a full company rebrand. Before that came a strategy consulting career at Deloitte focused on M&A advisory and transformation at Fortune 500 clients.
Today, Durare works on both sides of the transaction: buyers preparing to acquire and finance a business through the SBA process — a process the principal has navigated personally, as a borrower — and owners expanding margin, preparing for sale, or simply looking for a right hand who has been in the seat before.
Thirty minutes, no deck, no pitch. Bring the deal, the lender question, or the problem in the business — and leave with a straight read on whether we can help.
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